An important role of the Food Lists for Diabetes system of categorizing foods is to:
a. provide food lists for people who want an exact match on all nutrients in a food category.
b. provide groupings of foods with similar carbohydrate, fat, protein, and calorie contents.
c. calculate the exact number of calories provided by a person's diet
d. have foods available from one group to substitute for foods not liked in another group.
e. tell people with diabetes exactly what they can and cannot eat.
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